Just for the record: you are not required to manually use/set certificates that way. The httpget example from fcl-web package works out of the box with your URL (provided that you have the correct ssl libraries installed ).

.. and in case you need to do manually, then here is a small snippet in the wiki.

Edit: thank you for the extended corrections rvk. Dumb question as i seem unable to find myself. Can httpclient do a head request ?